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His lips parted in a strange, half-serious, half-speculative smile. The letter that was paramount now. What new venture did the night hold in store for him? What sudden emergency was the Gray Seal called upon to face this time what role, unrehearsed, without warning, must he play? What story of grim, desperate rascality would the papers credit him with when daylight came?
She felt as if she had entered upon a new era, indeed, and she feared with a dread unspeakable to look upon the path which lay before her. When Sylvia saw Guy again, he greeted her with an odd expression in his dark eyes, half-humorous, half-speculative. He was lying propped on pillows by the open window, a cigarette and a box of matches by his side. "Hullo, Sylvia!" he said. "You can come in.
He was forgetting everything else in a half-speculative, half-involuntary identification of himself with the objects he was looking at, thinking how far it might be possible habitually to shift his centre till his own personality would be no less outside him than the landscape when the sense of something moving on the bank opposite him where it was bordered by a line of willow bushes, made him turn his glance thitherward.
Do you ever have hysterics?" "Never," said Anne firmly. He took his coat and began to wriggle into it, surveying her meantime with a smile half-speculative, half-rueful. "Well, that's a weight off my mind, anyway," he remarked at length. "For I have a staggering piece of news for you which I hardly dare to impart. Oh, it's no good looking at your watch.
Yet how much better for you to have died than have lived till now! Absorbed in strange, half-morose, half-speculative fancies, I scarcely heard the close of the solemn service. I was roused by a delicate touch from my wife, and I woke, as it were, with a start, to hear the sonorous, crashing chords of the wedding-march in "Lohengrin" thundering through the air.
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